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Although they were recorded across a seven year period and were not intended to sit together

But I also can’t go by that piano solo on ‘Passion Dance’ for it’s incredible cluster chords and out of this world left hand syncopation—that’s the Real McCoy

Plea Unit by Plea Unit

Brooklyn Vegan said

Byard Lancaster - Funny Funky Rib Crib CD xx1976 Straitjacket Fits and the AbelAt the beginning of the 1960s, at the Berklee College of Music, Byard Lancaster met some feisty friends: Sonny Sharrock, Dave Burrell and Ted Daniel. It is easy to see why he rapidly became involved in free jazz. Once he was settled in New York, he appeared on Sunny Murray Quintet, recorded under the leadership of the drum crazy colleague of Albert Ayler. In 1968, the saxophonist and flutist recorded his first album under his own name: Its Not Up To